What Mattered to Iowa's Evangelicals

According to the pre-vote conventional wisdom, the Iowa caucus was the moment when conservative Evangelicals were going to reveal themselves as the unprincipled bigots the secular media believe them to be. After all, they were going to vote for Donald Trump, their new champion, and reject pro-life stalwarts Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Ben Carson. In the words of prominent ex-Evangelical Rachel Held Evans, â??Racism and xenophobia remain powerful forces in our country, as does celebrity worship, and white Christians arenâ??t as immune from these influences as they like to think.â?